• b000urns@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just curious, are lithium batteries worse than other disposable batteries that end up in landfill? In know many are Nickle cadmium, but aren’t just as many ALSO lithium batteries?

    (Here in Australia at least there are means of “safely” disposing of batteries, and nicotine vapes are in-theory not for sale).

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      1 year ago

      The problem is there is no real infrastructure to recycle the stuff so it just ends up in landfills with the associated pollution from discarded batteries.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        There are processes to recover raw materials from Li-Ion cells: freeze them to decrease electrolytic reactions, shred them and separate the bits mechanically (using computer vision) and chemically. Very expensive and risky.

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          I’m not sure I’d want to work in the place where they shred lithium batteries…!